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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of slave Mary Mildred Williams, whose fair-skinned appearance rendered her the poster child of the American abolitionist movement and influenced the line where white sympathy was drawn and recognized.
"The riveting, little-known story of Mary Mildred Williams--a slave girl who looked "white"--whose photograph transformed the abolitionist movement. When a decades-long court battle resulted in her family's freedom in 1855, seven-year-old...
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